Park bowled first, fielding a very strong bowling attack and expecting big things against the Ducksmen, and were off to a flyer with Craig partridge removing one of the openers for a duck, nicely caught behind by Sean Pritchard. Young Craig bowled with some venom, producing several edges that flew like tracer bullets, over, past and through the slips, and was unlucky not to take three or 4 wickets. His opening partner Paul Moss also bowled well having the other opener caught out by Dave Fletcher lurking in his customary short mid on. So Park were on top having the Ducksmen at 25 for 2. The visitors staged a bit of a recovery, eventually seeing off the Craig (7 overs, 1-24) and Mossy (10 overs, 1-21). Dave and Bill Partridge teamed up for the first change, Bill bowling well as ever but with no luck (8 overs 0-16), and Dave managing a nice brace of wickets with Fletch popping up with another nice catch close in, and Alan Russell with one of his (now trademark) difficult catches made to look easy. Dave finishing with 9 overs, 2-18. Despite finishing his bowling spell, craig made his presence felt in the field, creating two runouts with great fielding and throw ins from the deep, followed up by neat work by Sean partridge behind the stumps. Third change bowlers Skip Fowdy and Al 'easy catcher' Russell then teamed up to finish off the Ducksmen. The skipper treating the Ducksmen to a glimpse of his 'special stuff' and taking 3 wickets including a nice skied caught and bowled. Al then clean bowling the Ducksmens last man, to leave the visitors with 130 all out off 43 overs. 23 extras helping the Ducksmen to perhaps a higher total than they ought to have got.
Park opened with Dave Fletcher and Kenny Robotham but Fletch was out very quickly, looping a catch into the covers, a bad start for the Park at 1 for 1. Gannon came in at 3, and it was deja vu form Saturdays game, with Kenny resolutely defending and Gannons swipes occasionally connecting for boundarys. Kenny eventually departed for 2, caught behind with a fair bit of luck by the keeper, Park wobbling at 19 for 2. Alan Whaley entered the fray at no.4 and with the partnership having added only another 14, Park suffered a mini collapse. First to go Whaley, clean bowled for 0 (Park 33 for 3). Next up, Gannon caught in the covers for 24 (33 for 4), then Russell, again clean bowled for 0 (33 for 5). With park now in dire straits, losing 3 wickets for no score, we needed to consolidate, and up stepped Sean Pritchard and Craig Partridge to do just that. These two stayed together for an hour and added exactly 50 runs for the next wicket, batting sensibly but taking the runs when they were there, just what the Park doctor ordered. Eventually the pair were seperated, Pritchard finally caught out for a dogged 14 (Park - 83 for 6), and as so often happens, Partridge to soon follow, bowled for a cracking 29 (Park - 84 for 7). With only a few overs left, it was certainly too risky to chase a win and the Skipper Fowdy and Dave Partridge saw out the remaining overs very comfortably to earn Park a draw, both batsmen on 4 n.o. and Park 95 for 7 off 40 overs.
Although Park would normally be favourites to win this game, they nearly threw it away, and were only saved by some resolute middle order batting. One stand out performance from this game gets the MOM. Taking a wicket, prompting two run outs and top scoring with the bat - Craig Partridge